By Matthew Rozsa
In preparation for Senator Obama’s trip to a Florida synagogue, the Republican Jewish Coalition presented a list of three questions to pose to the soon-to-be presidential candidate. RJCWatch has decided to address these challenges (as well as expose the manipulative political maneuvering behind them) in a three-part series. Now to the first question:
In an interview, you called for a summit of Muslim nations, including Iran and Syria, but excluding Israel. Why?
The answer to this inquiry is fairly obvious. The summit in question is meant to open dialogue between the United States and Islamic countries. As such, Israel (which has a predominantly Jewish population) would not by definition fall into the category of nations with which Obama would be conversing. This in itself does not discriminate Israel in the slightest. Indeed, one could only make a case for discrimination against the Jewish state if it turned out that Obama was planning on talking with these nations on matters affecting Israel and that he was then not going to included Israel’s input before making relevant policies. However, there is no evidence, that this is the case. That makes this question a loaded one; RJC is implying that Israel’s exclusion from a summit of Muslim countries indicates anti-Israel bias, when in fact his reasons for not including Israel are perfectly legitimate (as well as obvious) and no other indication of anti-Israel predilections can be found.
